Comments on: The Website is Your Church’s New Front Door

By: Steve Dennie

Steve Dennie — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:02:46 +0000

If you are interested in hiring someone to do a website for you, I can suggest a couple of people. I don’t want to use this blog for advertising, especially when I can’t necessarily vouch for people. But if you contact me privately, I’ll be glad to steer you in a couple of directions.

By: Eric Schumm

Eric Schumm — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:57:27 +0000

Does Huntington University have students in their visual design, communication, computer science, or similar programs looking for a ministry opportunity? This would be an excellent opportunity for those students to develop their skills, get some hands-on experience, and help some of the churches in the denomination get started on a web site.
Most churches would find they could maintain and update the content if they had some help getting started and a little training on the maintenance task.

By: Mike Dennis

Mike Dennis — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:10:02 +0000

Dalton
I am able to access the Bethel Temple of Praise url now. It must have been a glitch in the internet!
I glad to have you and your church partnering with the UBC

By: Dalton Jenkins

Dalton Jenkins — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:00:39 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. I am currently using ForMinistry. Here is a suggestion: can we develop a system where pastors can submit a website for review and comment? Most of the time we are producing our own low cost websites with little or no feedback. It would be helpful to have some independent review. Since we are pursuing the same goals, we may be each other’s best critics. Steve you are right that the world has changed; blogs, email, etc. are the new wave. We can help each other develop websites that will do the job.

Thanks, Darwin. Thanks for the suggestion. My site is http://www.betheltempleofpraise.com. Any comment is appreciated.

By: Steve Dennie

Steve Dennie — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:21:58 +0000

Tom–I’m familiar with ForMinistry, but not with any other ones. I’d love to hear about any ministries that specialize in developing low-cost websites for churches.

By: Tom Blaylock

Tom Blaylock — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:22:29 +0000

Steve, seems like there must be some ministry out there geared to help the typical low-tech, local church in developing a decent website. Are you aware of any?

By: Darwin Dunten

Darwin Dunten — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:06:46 +0000

Dalton- We use a free webhost from American Bible Society. I believe the domain name costs seven or fourteen dollars per year. Check out our website to see all that we can do with it. We do all the work ourselves. We played around with it for about a month before we went public. I hope this is what your are asking for.

By: Steve Dennie

Steve Dennie — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:49:36 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have any web developers to recommend.

By: Dalton Jenkins

Dalton Jenkins — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:08:36 +0000

Do you have any recommendations as to web developers that are reasonable priced and that will do a good job?

By: Tom Datema

Tom Datema — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:24:09 +0000

Very true (about the importance of it) but that makes it a frightening prospect for me.